Thursday, April 6, 2017

Fox News Also Hit With Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

A third black employee of Fox News has joined a lawsuit accusing the news network, some of its executives and parent company 21st Century Fox FOX, -1.22% of racial discrimination.

Judith Slater

According to an amended complaint filed this week, Monica Douglas, a manager in the credit and collections department at Fox News, was “subjected to the same racially discriminatory treatment” that plaintiffs Tichaona Brown and Tabrese Wright claim to have endured at the hands of a longtime senior Fox News executive, former Comptroller Judith Slater, who is white.

The amended complaint accuses Slater of mocking Douglas’s hair, kicking her in the buttocks and referring to her Brooklyn home as the “murder capital of the world” because a lot of black people live there.

In addition, the suit claims Slater mocked Douglas’s appearance following her treatment for breast cancer.

The network said it fired Slater in February after an investigation into complaints that she made racial slurs and inappropriate remarks in conversation with her largely black staff. The initial suit, filed last week in New York State Supreme Court in Bronx County, argued that Slater was only let go after the network learned of the plaintiffs’ plans to file a suit.